Parking & access control

Foundation funds research for informed campaigningITS International talks to Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the transport research and lobbying organisation, the RAC Foundation. It is through the eyes of an economist that Professor Stephen Glaister, emeritus professor of transport and infrastructure at Imperial College London and director of the RAC Foundation, views current and future transport problems. Having spent 30 years at the...

Car parking and parked cars need not be a technological black holeDavid Crawford mines the potential of joined-up parking. Drivers conventionally see parking as an isolated, often frustrating, action; but collectively their attempts to find a space impact hugely on traffic flows. But new analyses of parking events look set to deliver real benefits to motorists and cities alike. Initiatives getting under way around the world are highlighting the advantages of...

Data exploits parking potentialDavid Crawford parallel parks with innovations in two continents. Surveys of US cities indicate that drivers searching for parking can account for up to 37% of all urban traffic congestion. A 2011 study by IBM of 20 cities around the world found that nearly six out of ten drivers had abandoned their search for a parking space at least once; while motorists generally spent on average 20 minutes...

Slimline secure access controlSecure entrance control specialist Automatic Systems has expanded its range of pedestrian access SlimLane speed gates with the new SlimLane SC (short cabinet) which has a...

Tinynode turns to car parking systemsBased on experience gained from its truck detection systems, Swiss company Tinynode has launched a wireless car parking detector, which can be used for off-street parking and...

Whoosh! from ParkeonParking and payment solutions provider Parkeon has launched its mobile phone parking payment service Whoosh! The solution has recently gone live in an off-street scheme for...

Data exploits parking potentialDavid Crawford parallel parks with innovations in two continents. Surveys of US cities indicate that drivers searching for parking can account for up to 37% of all urban...

Authorities play the parking ticketHaving long been a cause of contention with their constituents, local authorities are now using parking provision to entice shoppers and reduce congestion.
To say that...